Dummy Up - Frank Zappa, The Mothers

Sunrise

Get up in the mornin'

You know, I dig this mornin'

The sun is shinin' bright

I’m gonna get outside

Gonna wash my face

Grab my hat

Put it on my head

I take a walk downtown

Yeah… Because I feel so-oh good

I think I’m gonna take a walk downtown

Hey!

Sunrise!

Wo!

Somethin' I never seen before

Been walkin' down the street every day

Nobody like you ever passed my way

Maybe it must be too much sun

Couldn’t be my hat, must be too much…

Wait a minute!

Is that you?

What’s that… What, what’s that…

What, what’s that… What…

Dummy Up

What is that…

I know what that is, I know what that is…

I bet you that’s a restaurant menu…

Let me see… Let me see!

Not only do you get the Desenex burger

What?

Not only… the Desenex burger

Well you are in for a real treat, Jim

Wait a minute… I think I like that dance better than…

What are you talkin' about, creep?

What I’m talkin' about is you’ve been in this killer fog down here too long

What?

You need somethin' to get up and go to school with

Wait a minute, you’re not talkin' to an old fool now

You know I wasn’t born yesterday!

Heh heh heh!

Wait a minute…

I like that little dance you were doin' there…

(Jeff Simmons tries to corrupt Napoleon Murphy Brock by showing him a lewd

dance and suggesting that he’d smoke a high-school diploma…)

Hey!

Wait a minute!

Hey this, this stuff…

I never seen one of these before… that's not a menu…

This stuff is expensive

What is that?

You shoot it, you’ll conserve all winter

I do what?

It lasts longer

(Not only do you get the Desenex burger)

Now come on, try it

No, no

It’s really good

No. Smoke THAT?!

Have I ever lied to you?

Have I ever seen you before?

I don’t, I don’t even know you!

Look…

I don’t even know what that is!

And you’re drivin' me to smoke it…

Just before, we smoked the tapes that you made

Smoked the tapes?

Smoked the tapes of your group

I think I’m with the damned

You can really get off

Let’s try a joint of this

A what?

A joint

You mean this kinda joint?

No man!

Where you been in livin'…Reseda?

No, San Jose

(The evil dope pusher is cutting up a white gym sock, Formerly owned by Carl

Zappa and still damp.

The shredded sock will be placed inside of a high-school

diploma And ignited with a sulphur-preparation… His first taste of big city

life…)

That’s okay, wait…

Hey!

The roach of this is really gonna be good, so I’ll…

Have mercy!

What do you do with that thing?

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT THING?

YEAH!

Wait a minute!

Wait a minute!

Wait a minute!

What do you do with that thing?

I wanna know!

Wait a minute!

(Now the next step of this operation: The evil corrupter of youth is going to

take him from Step One, Which is a mere high-school diploma stuffed with a gym

sock, To Step Two, Which is a college-degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at

all.

Smoke that and it’ll really get you out there…)

I still don’t feel as good as I felt this mornin'…yeah yeah…

(You'll grow out of it…)

DUMMY UP!

I heard it again, somebody said…

You see this?

Wait a minute…

College!

College!

That’s college-rhythm

You mean if I smoke that, it’s the same as this

As if I was at college?

Roll it on up!

Roll it on up!

Roll it on up!

Give me that…

No no, the college degree is stuffed with absolutely nothing at all

You get, you get nothing with your college-degree…

But that’s what I want!

I forgot, I’m sorry…

Well, if you get nothin', well that’s what I want

(A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want. The results of a higher education…